xix, 633 pages : 24 cm

Images of the human is the collective effort of thirteen philosophy professors to address the questions human beings have been asking for centuries. The book presents selections from the major works of eighteen of the best-known philosophers from ancient to modern times. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher - from Plato to Nietzsche, Augustine to Sartre - and includes an introduction and critical commentary

"A reader with introductions and religious commentaries"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Plato: the human person as spirit / Introduction and commentary by R.E. Houser. -- Aristotle: the human person as a besouled body / Introduction and commentary by R.E. Houser. -- Saint Augustine: the human person as relational and volitional / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- Saint Thomas Aquinas: the human person as embodied spirit / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- René Descartes: the human person as a dualism / Introduction and commentary by Desmond J. Fitzgerald. -- David Hume: the human person as a construct / Introduction and commentary by Hunter Brown. -- Søren Kierkegaard: the human person as a collision of opposites / Introduction and commentary by Dennis L. Hudecki. -- Karl Marx: the human person as worker / Introduction and commentary by Michael T. Ryan. -- William James: the human person as elusive / Introduction and commentary by Hunter Brown. -- Friedrich Nietzsche: the human person as will to power / Introduction and commentary by John J. Snyder. -- Sigmund Freud: the human person as sexual / Introduction and commentary by Deal W. Hudson

Edith Stein: the human person as male and female / Introduction and commentary by Prudence Allen. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein: the human person as linguistic animal / Introduction and commentary by John J. Haldane. -- B.F. Skinner: the human person as necessitated / Introduction and commentary by Celia Wolf-Devine. -- Jean-Paul Sartre: the human person as freedom / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- Simone de Beauvoir: the human person as co-existent / Introduction and commentary by Janine D. Langan. -- Miguel de Unamuno and Ernest Becker: the human person as mortal / Introduction and commentary by John D. Morgan

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